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  • Gilgamesh as rooster

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    Dipping into the internet to go over the stories of Gilgamesh & Ishtar (for the 2010 Gilgamesh Press 3-novella publication by Red Hot Bad), I came across this piece of weirdness: The Goat Rope’s review of Gilgamesh in a week, as represented by household animals. Scroll past the ‘canine film critic’s review of The Godfather’…

  • Note to the Britain’s Got Talent team

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    Dear Britain’s Got Talent Team, I will totally buy this woman’s album. What a cheeky, modest, confident display of talent. And to think she got all the way to 47 (unemployed, ‘but I’m still looking’) without the kind of fame that is likely about to descend upon her. I may break with tradition & actually…

  • Not that I needed to expand my reading list

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    BUT lots of interesting reading suggested at SF Signal. In this case, non-genre titles for genre readers. And there’s also recommendations on literary fiction for people who hate literary fiction at Emerald City.

  • Guidebook for Time Travellers

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    Anybody who was catapulted back in time to Ice Age Europe would stand a good chance of being intelligible to the locals by using words such as “I”, “who” and “thou” and the numbers “two”, “three” and “five”, the work suggests. Which reminds me of a friend I was with in Europe with. She’d learned…

  • tested

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    Another test! (Yes, everybody passes.)

  • First Post

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  • Entymology is Fun!

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    Jedlicka Czech: Derived from Czech jedle meaning “fir tree”. Perhaps given to a person who lived near a fir tree. Perhaps. Or perhaps given to a person who *licked* a fir tree. Or perhaps given to a person just for no darn good reason at all. Ah, the czech. So hilarious.

  • Look, ma, my name in lights

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    It is incumbent upon me to mention the HorrorScope review of Agog! 3: Smashing Stories is a worthy purchase for fans of speculative mystery and outer space writing and the various unclassifiable pieces included alongside broaden this appeal considerably. I’m afraid my story, Number 3 Raw Place, did not meet the reviewer’s taste, being described…

  • Editing & writing

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    Some editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. — T.S. Eliot

  • Lines on the page, in the sand

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    So. I’ve thinking about editing again. Or maybe still. And my thoughts have turned to ownership. Ownership’s a big deal for me, so I’m guessing it’s the same for a lot of writers. And though my experiences with editing have been mostly pretty darn positive, I’m gonna stretch this basket to include all feedback. Feedback…